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tina_marie
tina_marie Member Posts: 88
edited August 2017 in Chemotherapy - Before, During, and After

Hi Everybody, Maybe this is a bit too early but I thought that I'd start a topic for those of us that will be starting Chemo in September 2017. We can share our journey with each other and connect along the way.

I will have my lumpectomy this Friday 8/25 and then I will be starting Chemo 3 weeks later. I don't know what type of Chemo they will be giving me until they get the pathology from the lump and get the results of my echocardiogram this Wednesday because I have tachycardia issues.

I really love all the tips posted in this category and would love to share new ones that we find. Somebody told me today that ginger lollipops are great.

Look forward to meeting you all!

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  • MzPriss
    MzPriss Member Posts: 38
    edited August 2017

    I met with my oncologist today. I start chemo on 9/1. I'll be on a cocktail of Taxotere, Perjeta, Carboplatin and Herceptin.

    I'm awaiting the call to know when the port will be placed and I have to have an echocardiogram as well.

    Tomorrow I am having a PET scan, and sometime this week I'll be giving saliva for the BRCA testing.

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  • tina_marie
    tina_marie Member Posts: 88
    edited August 2017

    Thanks Mz Priss for writing... I get my port tomorrow and I'm not being knocked out for it.. I just picked up my xanax to take before the appointment.

    Let us know how your chemo visit goes.

    Tina

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  • tina_marie
    tina_marie Member Posts: 88
    edited August 2017

    I had my port put in today... it was a little rough... I was just sedated with some xannax.. the nurses were great and they talked me through the whole process... I'm glad I did it without being knocked out, but wish i didn't have to go through this whole processes to begin with. Like somebody said to me in another post... I'm now part of the sorority that i really didn't want to pledge.

    So anybody that may be getting their port put in soon.. there's a great post about what the whole process entails.. This helped me know what to expect:

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/69/topics...

    Hoping to get more Sept 2017 chemo friends involved here.

    Up next for me... Lumpectomy on Friday.


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  • MzPriss
    MzPriss Member Posts: 38
    edited August 2017

    I read that post about the port placement too. Made me less anxious. I'm just waiting for the call telling me when it's scheduled. I have to have an echo too, hoping it's scheduled before the port.


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  • tina_marie
    tina_marie Member Posts: 88
    edited August 2017

    Lumpectomy, check ✔️

    No more cancer in my body, now I move forward making sure it never comes back!

    An interesting thing today tho....

    At 10a my breast surgeon, Dr. Kristine Keeney is being interviewed at The New York State Fair, at 12 noon she was taking the cancer out of my body!

    http://www.localsyr.com/bridge-street/upstate-community-campus-at-the-new-york-state-fair/798367240

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